New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-02
ANOTHER CRYProGRAPHro DISCOVERY

nm prAr. MEANING or suAxEsPEAREs EPITAPH
MADE KNOWN BY LUTHER r. MARSH
70 fhs Edttor of The Trfouns
SIR As sofa Ingenious wghts have lately misspent
iheir time In inventng distortions Oh
Tho a,phabotic composition Of Shakespeare's
plays, ond even of his eptaph, 1t seems
proper that the truth should be told ! have only
space now to speak Of the monumental inscrpuoh'
which, however great Shakespeare has hitherto peeh
regarded demonstrates, by the true rcveamcht OF us
inner cnse that the phosophic laurels so long worn
by must be transferred to shakespeare
brow 7 give the epItaph In the form and type, "a
printed by knight:
no DIeG TIE DUST ENcLoAsKD HERE
BLKsr BR TIE MAN SPARES TIES STONES
AND cunsr Be HE T MOvrs MY BONES
We would look, naturally, to the first line for the
first word Of the translation. Accordingly the "oia
sake" may DO easily made shaAcs by inserting the
letter Ia, in "Ie": and adding the letter from inc
word Jesus; then, by skipping the next syllable
for" and in the syllable "bearo, bringing the stroke
of tie below the line, thus (as was evideh'H
intended by the rustic SCULPTOR, we have peare-'nus
Shakespeare.
In the next line we would look for the next word
Accordingiy,-the letter in RE-" and the letters
and In "Io", and the letter In "He" give us tho
word rote-(the way "wrote" often written in tho
Old time
of course the next or third word must be in the
tird line. We have it In b, twice repeated, and q
twlce repeated, making b. II any ono Will study
Bacon's tShakespeares) cipher In the De Augmentis
no will that this repetition was intended to give
emphasis to the frst syllable Of Bacon's name In
the next line get the letters c, o, and switch
completes Bacons name
AS the last word,-the fourth-corespOnding with
the four lines of the epapn-would naturally embrace
The UNIVERSAL we hnd, In the verse; the letters I,
o, II, X, s. AL know that and w used to Do useu
lndiscr1mnatey. linus the word works" 50 1t STANDS
shakespeare wrote Bacons works." and so IL Is
clear 10 any one having far development oa .no
logical faculty That this feest0ne has, for 30 years.
its hard, cold bosom this great secret Wnen
explained, Ae Colunibuss egg, 1t seems strange that
II has not been seen before But 1t seems 10 have
been reserved that It mgnt prove an eminent
behalf, to steal The h0n0rs Of Shakespeare, mas re-
cooled Ike cannon. Shakespeare, who, as he says
in ons Of his Essays (falsely hitherto aofiDued 10
Bacon) was always looking "bcfore and AFTER ana
had q prophetic inkng Of the future attempt 70 roo
him, and of its result, says: .
"Let me speak, to the yet unknovlng world
How purposes mistook have
Fallen on the inventors heads"
Indeed this prophecy took such possession OF MN MN
that he content with q single allusion, ana
so again he speaks Of those instructions which IKE.
turn to plague the inventor" Indeed shakespeare
was so indignant az this bald attempt whicn ne
and calls them las am sure he would not have done
be had kncwn VINO his assaanss Were were TO almost
oss his pHptS when he Makes Quickly
cxclaIm: "Iiang hog Is the Latin for Bacon. !
warrant you" But, perceiving that the truth would
does not require much knowledge Of human nature
to know that Bacon would S never have wrleh 'h'Se
What can be- palmer than that Shakespeare made
special allusion to this imposition or hoax hum6ug
tas CANNON Is detned when he says 81 have
or hoax subslde $50 mote it be-" Yours,
Nec York. Sept. 81, 1887. LUTHER r. MArsH.